76 Facts About Toronto Canada

Toronto Canada is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world.

Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto Canada area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years.

Diverse population of Toronto reflects its current and historical role as an important destination for immigrants to Canada.

The Toronto Canada City Council is a unicameral legislative body, comprising 25 councillors since the 2018 municipal election, representing geographical wards throughout the city.

Toronto Canada is the third-largest tech hub in North America after Silicon Valley and New York City, and the fastest growing.

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The word "Toronto Canada", meaning "plenty" appears in a 1632 French lexicon of the Huron language, which is an Iroquoian language.

Site of Toronto Canada lay at the entrance to one of the oldest routes to the northwest, a route known and used by the Huron, Iroquois, and Ojibwe, and was of strategic importance from the beginning of Ontario's recorded history.

The first 25 years after the Toronto Canada purchase was quiet, although "there were occasional independent fur traders" present in the area, with the usual complaints of debauchery and drunkenness.

Reformist politician William Lyon Mackenzie became the first mayor of Toronto and led the unsuccessful Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 against the British colonial government.

Toronto Canada became the capital of the province of Ontario after its official creation in 1867.

Long before the Royal Military College of Toronto Canada was established in 1876, supporters of the concept proposed military colleges in Toronto Canada.

The Grand Trunk Railway and the Northern Railway of Toronto Canada joined in the building of the first Union Station in downtown.

Toronto Canada became the largest alcohol distillation centre in North America.

In 1967, the seven smallest municipalities of Metropolitan Toronto Canada were merged with larger neighbours, resulting in a six-municipality configuration that included the former city of Toronto Canada and the surrounding municipalities of East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, and York.

Toronto Canada's population grew to more than one million in 1951 when large-scale suburbanization began and doubled to two million by 1971.

On January 1,1998, Toronto Canada was greatly enlarged, not through traditional annexations, but as an amalgamation of the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto Canada and its six lower-tier constituent municipalities: East York, Etobicoke, North York, Scarborough, York, and the original city itself.

However, municipal governments in Toronto Canada are creatures of the provincial governments, and referendums have little to no legal effect.

Toronto Canada called in the Canadian Army to aid snow removal by use of their equipment to augment police and emergency services.

Toronto Canada hosted WorldPride in June 2014, and the Pan and Parapan American Games in 2015.

Toronto Canada covers an area of 630 square kilometres, with a maximum north–south distance of 21 kilometres.

Toronto Canada Islands were a natural peninsula until a storm in 1858 severed their connection to the mainland, creating a channel to the harbour.

City of Toronto Canada has a hot summer humid continental climate, though was on the threshold of a warm summer humid continental climate until the 20th century but still found in the metropolitan region, with warm, humid summers and cold winters.

Toronto Canada encompasses an area formerly administered by several separate municipalities that were amalgamated over the years.

The Wychwood Park neighbourhood, historically significant for the architecture of its homes, and for being one of Toronto Canada's earliest planned communities, was designated as an Ontario Heritage Conservation district in 1985.

Pre-amalgamation City of Toronto Canada covers the downtown core and older neighbourhoods to the east, west, and north of it.

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Old Toronto Canada is home to many historically wealthy residential enclaves, such as Yorkville, Rosedale, The Annex, Forest Hill, Lawrence Park, Lytton Park, Deer Park, Moore Park, and Casa Loma, most stretching away from downtown to the north.

The first neighbourhoods affected were Leaside and North Toronto Canada, gradually progressing into the western neighbourhoods in York.

Examples included the Gooderham and Worts Distillery, Canadian Malting Company, the Toronto Canada Rolling Mills, the Union Stockyards and the Davies pork processing facility.

Toronto Canada still has some active older industrial areas, such as Brockton Village, Mimico and New Toronto Canada.

The Waterfront Toronto Canada agency has developed plans for a naturalized mouth to the Don River and to create a flood barrier around the Don, making more of the land on the harbour suitable for higher-value residential and commercial development.

At the census metropolitan area level in the 2021 census, the Toronto Canada CMA had a population of 6,202,225 living in 2,262,473 of its 2,394,205 total private dwellings, a change of 4.

Toronto Canada is a large hub of the Canadian and global technology industry, generating $52 billion in revenues annually.

Real estate is a major force in the city's economy, Toronto Canada is home to some of the nation's—and the world's—most expensive real estate.

Toronto Canada's Walk of Fame acknowledges the achievements of successful Canadians, with a series of stars on designated blocks of sidewalks along King Street and Simcoe Street.

The Toronto Canada International Film Festival is an annual event celebrating the international film industry.

Toronto Canada's buildings vary in design and age with many structures dating back to the early 19th century, while other prominent buildings were just newly built in the first decade of the 21st century.

Toronto Canada is a city of high-rises, and had 1,875 buildings over 30 metres as of 2011.

In contrast, since 2000, amid the Canadian property bubble, Toronto Canada has experienced a period of condo construction boom and architectural revival, with several buildings by world-renowned architects having opened.

The Toronto Canada Islands are close to downtown Toronto Canada, and do not permit private motor vehicles beyond the airport.

The Toronto Canada Zoo is home to over 5,000 animals representing over 460 distinct species.

The Gardiner Museum of ceramic art is the only museum in Toronto Canada entirely devoted to ceramics, and the Museum's collection contains more than 2,900 ceramic works from Asia, the Americas, and Europe.

Toronto Canada is home to Casa Loma, the former estate of Sir Henry Pellatt, a prominent Toronto Canada financier, industrialist and military man.

Toronto Canada has a diverse array of public spaces, from city squares to public parks overlooking ravines.

The Toronto Canada Public Space Committee is an advocacy group concerned with the city's public spaces.

Toronto Canada is represented in five major league sports, with teams in the National Hockey League, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, Canadian Football League, and Major League Soccer.

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Toronto Canada is one of four North American cities to have won titles in its five major leagues, and the only one to have done so in the Canadian Football League.

Toronto Canada is home to the Toronto Canada Maple Leafs, one of the NHL's Original Six clubs, and has served as home to the Hockey Hall of Fame since 1958.

In 2016, Toronto Canada hosted the 65th NBA All-Star game, the first to be held outside the United States.

Toronto Canada is represented in soccer by the Toronto Canada FC MLS team, who have won seven Canadian Championship titles, as well as the MLS Cup in 2017 and the Supporters' Shield for best regular season record, in 2017.

Toronto Canada has a high level of participation in soccer across the city at several smaller stadiums and fields.

Toronto Canada FC had entered the league as an expansion team in 2007.

The Rock formerly shared the Scotiabank Arena with the Maple Leafs and the Raptors, However, the Toronto Canada Rock moved to the nearby city of Hamilton while retaining its Toronto Canada name.

Toronto Canada has hosted several National Football League exhibition games at the Rogers Centre.

Toronto Canada is home to the Toronto Canada Rush, a semi-professional ultimate team that competes in the American Ultimate Disc League.

Many post-secondary institutions in Toronto Canada are members of U Sports or the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association, the former for universities and the latter for colleges.

Toronto Canada was home to the International Bowl, an NCAA sanctioned post-season college football game that pitted a Mid-American Conference team against a Big East Conference team.

Toronto Canada hosted the 2015 Pan American Games in July 2015, and the 2015 Parapan American Games in August 2015.

Toronto Canada was a candidate city for the 1996 and 2008 Summer Olympics, which were awarded to Atlanta and Beijing respectively.

Toronto Canada is among various cities in North America to host matches during soccer's 2026 FIFA World Cup.

The Toronto Canada City Council is a unicameral legislative body, comprising 25 councillors, since the 2018 municipal election, representing geographical wards throughout the city.

Historically low crime rate in Toronto Canada has resulted in the city having a reputation as one of the safest major cities in North America.

In 2005, Toronto Canada media coined the term "Year of the Gun", because of a record number of gun-related homicides, 52, out of 80 homicides in total.

The total number of homicides dropped to 70 in 2006; that year, nearly 2,000 people in Toronto Canada were victims of a violent gun-related crime, about one-quarter of the national total.

Total number of homicides in Toronto Canada reached a record 96 in 2018; the number included fatalities from the Toronto Canada van attack and the Danforth shooting.

In 2007, Toronto Canada was reported as having some of the longer average emergency room waiting times in Ontario.

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Toronto Canada's Discovery District is a centre of research in biomedicine.

Toronto Canada is host to a wide variety of health-focused non-profit organizations that work to address specific illnesses for Toronto Canada, Ontario and Canadian residents.

Toronto Canada is a central transportation hub for road, rail and air networks in Southern Ontario.

Toronto Canada has an extensive network of bicycle lanes and multi-use trails and paths.

Downsview Airport, near the city's north end, is owned by de Havilland Toronto Canada and serves the Bombardier Aviation aircraft factory.

Toronto Union Station serves as a hub for VIA Rail's intercity services in Central Canada and includes services to various parts of Ontario, Corridor services to Montreal and national capital Ottawa, and long-distance services to Vancouver and New York City.

The main municipal expressways in Toronto Canada include the Gardiner Expressway, the Don Valley Parkway, and to some extent, Allen Road.

TDSB operates the most schools among the four Toronto Canada-based school boards, with 451 elementary schools, 105 secondary schools, and five adult learning centres.

The University of Toronto Canada operates two satellite campuses, one of which is in the city's eastern district of Scarborough, while the other is in the neighbouring city of Mississauga.

Toronto Canada contains the headquarters of the major English-language Canadian television networks CBC, CTV, Citytv, Global, The Sports Network and Sportsnet.

Much, M3 and MTV Toronto Canada are the main music television channels based in the city, though they no longer primarily show music videos as a result of channel drift.